RF Cables & Connectors

Santa Fe Technologies, Inc. offers full range of RF coaxial cables and connectors for wireless devices, M2M applications, videos and alarm systems. Custom length, specification and requirement are welcomed.

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Various Contracted Factories with State-of-the-Art CNC Machines to ensure high precision output.

RF Cable

This cable segment includes, but not limited to, RG-58, RG-174, RG-178, RG-316 and o/d 1.13. For the cable assembly section, Santa Fe has worked within a wide range of industries, including wireless, automotive, medical, military and high end industrial applications with custom cables, microwave/Radio frequency, overmolded cables, and waterproof cable assemblies.

All of our products are 100% factory tested before shipment and we pride ourselves in providing the most flexible and attentive customer service. Please contact us to get a quote of your required cable assembly.

Ribbon Cable

A ribbon cable, multi-wire planar cable, is a cable with multiple conducting wires linking parallelly to each other on the same flat plane, which is flat and wide. Ribbon cables are usually used for internal peripherals in computers, seldom applied for external connections.

One edge of the cable is usually marked with a red stripe for reducing the risk of reversed connections. By convention the edge with the stripe is connected to pin 1 on the connector. This method of identification is fine for cables that just consist of two or more IDC connectors with every connector connecting to every wire. Ribbon-cable vendors introduced rainbow ribbon cable, which uses a repeating pattern of colors borrowed from the standard resistor color code, to make it easier to identify individual conductors in a cable: Brown is pin 1 or pin 11 or pin 21, etc. Red is pin 2 or pin 12 or pin 22, etc.

Ribbon cables are specified by two numbers: the spacing/pitch of the conductors, and the number of conductors/ ways. A spacing of 0.05 inch (1.27 mm) is the most usual, allowing for a two-row connector with a pin spacing of 0.1 inch (2.54 mm). These types are used for many types of equipment for interconnections within an enclosure. This size is used in floppy-disk-drive cables or personal computers. The wire is usually stranded copper wire in either 0.32, 0.20, or 0.13 mm2. Finer and coarser pitch cables are also available.

The main point of ribbon cables is to allow mass termination to specially designed IDC connectors in which the ribbon cable is forced onto a row of sharp forked contacts. (The phrase "IDC connector" is widely used, even though it is redundant—an example of RAS syndrome.) Most commonly termination is done at both ends of the cable, although sometimes (for example, when making a lead that needs to change wiring between the two connectors) only one end will be IDC terminated, with the other end being terminated in a regular crimp or solder-bucket connection. Although it is sometimes possible to dismantle and re-use IDC connectors, they are not designed to allow this to be done easily.

Popular types of connectors available with IDC termination suitable for ribbon cable include: BT224 connector, D-subminiature connector, Micro ribbon connector, DIN 41612 connector, PCB transition headers, DIL headers and etc.

Please send the request with detailed specification and pin description. Thank you.

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